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We are just priced out of having this type of happiness due to high cost of living in a first world urban environment.

• Aeolun 7mo ago
  Every single environment that has a critical mass of people will have an elementary and middle school. How could you possibly be priced out of this?
  • deaux 7mo ago
    This entire concept doesn't exist in much of the world. The incredible prevalence of intramural sports, and the seriousness of it, at all kinds of age groups is a very US phenomenon. Let alone random neighborhood people coaching teams. In most of the world it's more club-based rather than school-based, and that's quite different.
    • jimbokun 7mo ago
      But surely they still need youth coaches?
  • Markoff 7mo ago
    I assume he meant coaching full time would not pay the bills for living. My kids elementary school doesn't have their own teams/coeaches, everything is managed through different NGO/non-profit which has contracts to use gyms in various schools. The yearly fee for being member of a sport club varies between 100-250EUR which certainly is not enough to pay the coaches full time.